Word: centrist
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...answer is not foreordained: it must depend partly on Johnson's skill in maintaining the consensus; partly on the course of racial and foreign crises; and partly on whether groups to the right and left of Democratic center succeed in formulating realistic alternatives to centrist policies. So far, the capacity to think out such policies is something that neither side has shown any signs of developing...
...After Red votes swung the election to moderate Leftist Giovanni Gronchi in 1955, Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti cried: "When it comes to choosing a President, we are the ones who choose." Last week, after the Reds backed Saragat in a futile maneuver aimed at pulling him farther left than Centrist Fanfani would be willing to go, the Communist boast had turned hollow...
Against the crackdown were the rightists and neo-Nazis generally referred to in Argentina as nationalists: a group of unreconstructed Perónistas who hoped to ride back to influence with the nationalists; new right-wing or centrist parties, some under Roman Catholic auspices. Any of these might gain strength by attracting old Peronistas, whose party is now leaderless. Their spokesmen: Presidential Press Secretary Carlos Goyeneche and Army Minister Leon Bengoa...
Inside & Out. When he sat down, the Socialists went after him hot & heavy, anxious to fix his party with the onus of a peace treaty they could fight at the polls 17 months from now. Adenauer's own Centrist coalition fought him too. In the end, they tacked on to his rearmament resolution four sticky conditions...
...line politicos have raised a hue & cry that Papagos plans a dictatorship. Chief among his opponents: former Premier Nicholas Plastiras, Centrist, himself a onetime general, though considerably less successful than Papagos, and Sophocles Venizelos, a bridge-playing, bumbling, well-intentioned Liberal. The U.S. has taken no stand in this election, but with Greece about to become a full member of the North Atlantic Treaty alliance, there is no doubt that U.S. military men would like to see an efficient administrator and housecleaner like Papagos...